Russia Launches 3-Man Crew Rocket

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Russia Launches 3-Man Crew Rocket

Russia launched a rocket carrying two cosmonauts and a Belgian astronaut Wednesday to the international space station for an eight-day mission.

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Russia launched a rocket carrying two cosmonauts and a Belgian astronaut Wednesday to the international space station for an eight-day mission.

The spacecraft lifted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 6:11 a.m., said Nikolai Kryuchkov, a spokesman for Russia's mission control center outside Moscow.

The Soyuz TMA separated from the rocket and entered orbit successfully, Kryuchkov said.

The Soyuz-TMA is to dock with the space station Friday, Kryuchkov said. The crew is to carry out 23 scientific experiments including biomedical and weightlessness studies, the Interfax news agency reported.

The new Soyuz TMA spacecraft, which has a new control system and will be left behind at the station while they make their return on an older Soyuz TM capsule, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported.

Source: Agencies

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